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Date(s)
- c. 1890s-1950s (Creation)
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Extent and medium
1 volume, with 1 additional slim volume and 2 loose sheets
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Biographical history
At least two generations of the Loadman family ran a shop initially at 5 College Street, then at 37 Stonegate and at Minster Gates, York, as a dealer in antiques, old china, furniture, and curios.
The shop was started by Thomas Loadman between 1871 and 1881, and operated until at least the 1950s. Thomas Loadman was born in Helmsley in 1819 as the son of a brewer. He married Jane Sollitt in 1845 in York. Thomas Loadman worked as a gas inspector for most of his career and appears to have opened the shop as a dealer in old china alongside this role later in life with the support of his wife and children. Several of his children helped to run the shop and continued to run it after his death. This includes: Margaret Elizabeth Loadman, born 1847, who moved the shop to Stonegate after Thomas Loadman's death; Eugene Loadman, born c 1865; and Herbert Myers Loadman, born c 1873.
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Scope and content
A volume of sketches and coloured drawings made over a period of 60 years showing items purchased by the Loadman family, as well as antiques, museum items, and archaeological finds located elsewhere. Some of the items are labelled in the volume as being in the Yorkshire Museum. The volume includes a drawing of the shops at 5 College Street, 37 Stonegate and Minster Gates which were run by the Loadman family.
The volume was probably begun in the 1890s and continued until the 1950s.
Text from the title page reads: ‘Our Cureo Book. This book consists of sketches of some of the many articles purchased during a period of over sixty years by the Loadman family of York, dealers in curios. Sketches by E. Loadman and H.M. Loadman’.
Also includes: a copy of the City of York and District Family History Society journal, dated June 2013 with notes and annotations about the Loadman family on p. 41; two printed off sheets containing information from the Ancestry and Find My Past websites with information about Thomas Loadman; and a typed copy of a census return for the Loadman family at 37 Stonegate, York, in 1901.
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Open
Material is available subject to the usual terms and conditions of access to Archives and Local History collections.
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Images are supplied for private research only at the Archivist's discretion. Please note that material may be unsuitable for copying on conservation grounds. Researchers who wish to publish material must seek copyright permission from the copyright owner.